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CityLab
With the rise of geographic information systems and an explosion in digital mapmaking tools, the pencil-to-paper cartographer is all but an extinct species. Similarly, the definition of "cartographer" is expanding to include people with a wider variety of geospatial training and ambitions. That includes more women.
Women from all over the world collect, analyze and map spatial data for scientific research, government and nonprofits, businesses and universities.
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Point of Beginning
The Federal Aviation Administration announced that, after a comprehensive risk analysis, it has raised the unmanned aircraft "blanket" altitude authorization for Section 333 exemption holders and government aircraft operators to 400 feet. Previously, the agency had put in place a nationwide Certificate of Waiver or Authorization for such flights up to 200 feet.
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KWMU-FM
The likely winner of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency's new facility will be made public this week. A report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Friday will include the preferred location for the NGA's new west headquarters.
The top choices are believed to be farmland near Scott Air Force Base and an area of north St. Louis that would involve the city acquiring property through eminent domain.
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CoreLogic
As a GIS professional, you understand that robust and quality data is at the heart of every business decision including land-use planning, mineral exploration, tax compliance, transportation, as well as infrastructure development and management. However, collecting data from various local government and other resources can be expensive, time-consuming and error-prone. Sadly identifying a single and trusted provider of quality data is not always easy. Until now.
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GPS World
One new potential wrinkle for Galileo was hinted at during the Munich Satellive Navigation Summit session in March on legal issues around GNSS timing. A recent GPS timing issue caused numerous problems for digital broadcasters and financial networks around the world on Jan. 26, when a data upload went slightly awry. This introduced a 13.7 millisecond error in one of the timing signals: the static offset for GPS time compared to Coordinated Universal Time.
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Fortune
Facebook has a vested interest in helping the 4.2 billion people who still lack reliable Internet access find their way online. But when the social media company launched an effort in 2013 to provide connectivity to some of the world's most remote and disconnected regions, it immediately ran into a problem. Facebook knew these disconnected billions existed — just not precisely where in the world they were.
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Smart Grid News
During the next decade, utilities are expected to make significant investments in substation, feeder, and transformer automation technologies and solutions.
In fact, Navigant Research predicts global annual distribution automation and substation automation revenue will grow from $7.6 billion in 2016 to $12.2 billion in 2025.
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Sensors & Systems
The engineering mind might answer the above question with details on what each specific sensor is tuned to measure along with figures from specification sheets with limits, resolution, response time and other characteristics. The more artistic mind, say that of a social scientist or storyteller, might speak to the data patterns and the insight that our sensing affords, pointing to rhythms or to a quantified improved understanding.
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Directions Magazine
Esri and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service announce the publication of Engagement Portfolio, a gallery of maps and apps that gives everyone access to U.S. forestry data. The portfolio of maps and analysis tools opens the Forest Service's rich content to a broad spectrum of users, engaging everyone from forestry professionals to conservation-minded laypeople.
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The American Surveyor
We are constantly confronted by new conceptual expressions. Some are merely expressions of enduring practices or Ideas, like "environmental pollution load," which is a fancy way of quantifying a condition of unacceptable things like dirty water and air. The term "spatial analysis tools" sounds very technically advanced but simply refers to analytical processes we are well acquainted with.
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From researching a farm’s historic boundaries to creating new ones for a subdivision, land surveyor Ray Page sees a diverse workload. He owns Vermont Survey Consultants in Rutland Town, Vermont, and his work keeps him outside most of the time — in weather of all kinds and in all seasons.
Page does a lot of work with engineers on new subdivision projects, helping create base plans for site designs.
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